Chapter 309 Earth-aircraft

Despite his fear of death, Wang Dehua still gritted his teeth to the front line. Dengzhou Camp was a vassal state, and this view had reached a consensus in the current court. As a eunuch, he was sent here by the emperor to serve as a military supervisor, which seemed very miserable. Wang Dehua lived in Dengzhou at all, and was even very comfortable.

Five hundred silver dollars a month come from the salt farm and grain warehouse, and he never has to do anything. He never has to worry about the taxes in Dengzhou Prefecture. He paid them on time when the time comes. He once paid twice a year, and a bill of exchange was sent to the capital, and the Ministry of Revenue directly withdraws silver dollars from the money house. Sometimes Wang Dehua thought that the vassal states in the Ming Dynasty were like this, and it was actually quite good.

But you can't think so, that's a political mistake. As a slave in the Tian family, what he wants to do is to execute the emperor's will. Anyone or thing that may pose a threat to the emperor's rights must be reported in a timely manner and supervised and restricted.

Wang Dehua has had experience in going to the battlefield, but that was the battlefield within. It was the first time for Jiannu. He was really afraid of it. It was not that he was afraid of defeating the Dengzhou Camp, but that Chen Xie would just find an excuse to kill him. It was too simple to die on the battlefield, and it was too easy to find reasons, especially when fighting Jiannu.

At first, Wang Dehua said he couldn't get sick, but he couldn't stand the emperor's orders and had to go to the front line. When he arrived on the battlefield, it had been half a month since Chen Xie sent troops to Gaizhou.

Standing five miles away from the battlefield, Wang Dehua still felt unsafe. The telescope in his hand was trembling and almost fell to the ground. This thing is really good. It was just borrowed and I had to pay it back later. He knew that the memorials impeached Chen Xie in the court were full of memorials. Generally, when encountering such a situation, even civil servants could not resist it. But Chen Xie was just like nothing, and he did whatever he should do, and the whole country of Dengzhou was just like nothing else.

This is the confidence! The officials under Denglai's rule may not be the same as Chen Xie, but they are absolutely consistent in their interests. The court is already planning how to divide and disintegrate the Dengzhou officialdom. It is foreseeable that a storm is coming. I wonder what the guy who is looking at the city is higher than that, what will happen at that time.

Three days have passed since the work of clearing the obstacles, and the difficulty is getting greater and greater. The initial trench was relatively easy to make, and the subsequent combination of wooden fences and trenches has gradually increased as the distance progresses. If it is an ordinary Ming army, the casualties of more than a dozen people every day are nothing, but for Chen Xie, I really feel sorry for him.

The main force of the Later Jin Dynasty had a strong will to resist. Many Fran machine guns were found on the top of the city. Since the fixed gun positions were eliminated, Jirgalang discovered a new method. Several people carried Fran machine guns and fired one shot to change the place. In this way, as the clearance advanced to within 100 meters, casualties began to increase significantly, mainly the casualties of civilians.

In Chen Xie's eyes, civil servants are also valuable resources, otherwise there would be no need to come from the Henan farmers. Liaodong has a small population and a large amount of arable land, and relying solely on the current tens of thousands of people is simply not enough.

"You have to think of a way to reduce casualties." When Chen Xie was talking to himself, Chief of Staff Su Haochen promptly suggested that he could let the rifle soldiers put on the balloons closer, hit the gunner condescendingly, or simply make the fuse longer and throw the grenade down.

Well, this method is good. Chen Xie heard it and immediately ordered: "Stop the attack and go back to have a meeting."

It was very rare. Dengzhou Camp fought for a whole morning and then retreated. Tong Jia, who led the troops to attack, felt a very bad feeling. He came to Jiergalang and said, "Master, Lupi is not sure what tricks to do. In the past three days, there have been two thousand casualties in the city. If you continue to fight like this, Minzhuang can't hold on."

Jiergalang also had a headache. The war between Dengzhou Camp was too evil and he was not in a hurry at all. Just slowly fighting with you, aren’t you worried about the return of the main force of the Later Jin Dynasty? Looking at Dengzhou Camp behind, Jiergalang frowned and could not do anything.

Wang Dehua was fortunate to attend Chen Xie's military meeting. In his mind, Chen Xie's opening remarks were a bit nonsense. What is the number of civilians who died? Since he was worried about the casualties of civilians, he was also called the general of the Ming Dynasty? Although he was disdainful, Wang Dehua dared not talk nonsense. He came in with his ears and did not intend to speak, so as not to disturb Chen Fanzhen.

"The civilians suffered a lot of casualties, so they can't be too slow with Jirgalang. I thought of a way, and everyone can see if it's OK. The engineers sent out a few carpenters with good skills, made a coffin, filled it with gunpowder, and covered it with lids. Turn around and build a few shield trucks, it's okay to slow down. Tomorrow morning, concentrate the firepower to greet me at the section of the city gate, and then push the shield trucks up, and it's a big blow."

After Chen Xie said this, everyone was excited and seemed a little excited. Su Haochen knocked on the table hard and said loudly: "It's quiet, the master hasn't finished it. What have you done long ago? I'm excited now."

A group of young staff members were said to be red and still lacking experience. They really had never fought a tough battle in the past. In fact, Chen Xie had thought of this move for a long time and hoped that these young people would think of it on their own. Unfortunately, they still lacked this awareness. If you pull out the seedlings to help grow, just pull out the seedlings to grow. If you pull out Haizhou, it should be enough for Huang Taiji to be honest.

"This, in order to reduce casualties, there are still many preparations. Find some soldiers with good marksmanship and practice on hot air balloons. You can change the grenade fuse and throw it down. Just one afternoon preparation time, everyone will work hard. You must open Haizhou City tomorrow, just like that, and have a break."

The meeting ended like this. Chen Xie walked to Wang Dehua and smiled and said, "Mr. Supervisor, what else should I add?"

Wang Dehua laughed so hard that he was crying. You announced that the meeting had ended. Can you still chat happily? "This, I didn't say anything."

Su Haochen waited for Wang Dehua to leave, looked at his back disdainfully and said, "You really take yourself seriously."

Chen Xie smiled and said, "It's not easy to be a military supervisor. By the way, the key to tomorrow is the suspension bridge, and you have to interrupt the winch." Su Haochen smiled and said, "This is not difficult. I haven't greeted that thing. I'll hit the cannon fire tomorrow."

The camp was busy, and the soldiers were selected to go to hot air balloons and practice design on nearby mountains. The carpenters rushed to make coffins, while the engineers were busy experimenting with the length of the fuses, and the artillery was even more powerful. They took a group of people to the city to measure the scale. They didn't take the people in the city seriously at all. In this way, Jirgalang in the city did not dare to let his subordinates attack.

The next morning, the Dengzhou soldiers came again. Jiergalang got on the top of the city and looked at the artillery soldiers who were preparing with a frown. He was really bullying. There were also that ball. Today, Julai had ten balls. What are you doing?

The white smoke rose up, and the people on the top of the city were lying down. After three days, they learned their lessons. Behind the collapsed battlements, there was a wall of sandbags piled up. This thing worked well. Today, the city wall was busy with this. When the shells hit it, there was basically no harm.

But today seems different. The fierce artillery fire slammed at the wall of the city gate. Under the cover of the green-skinned team, the cannon began to push forward. The civilians did not move. Are they planning to attack the city gate directly? After thinking carefully, Jirgalang ordered: "Go, find some people, block the city gate with sandbags, and let someone prepare tinder oil. Once the Ming army approaches the city gate, pour the tinder oil and ignite it."

The column of the winch didn't last long. In less than ten minutes, the wall disappeared. The column was broken and the suspension bridge fell with a bang. At this time, the small cannon in front also began to shoot. It seemed like medicine was not enough to cost money to face this section of the city wall less than 200 meters. The hot air balloons also came. They flew so close today, with a height of only a hundred steps, and the bows and arrows could be shot. Without Jiergalang's greeting, some archers took action.

Several arrows were shot in succession, but they were ineffective. Not only did the arrows come down, they were bombarded by artillery soldiers. This distance was really the limit of bows and arrows. The soldiers on the hot air balloon were not idle. There were six soldiers on one balloon, each soldier had a loader, and three rifles were taking turns.

It was lively, and the archers were constantly making noises one by one. The intensive vitality was fighting this section, and there were no way to be stunned. The shield carts were dispatched, with a total of ten. Only two of them were with coffins, and the others were all pretexts to attract firepower. The huge shield carts were pushed forward and slowly moved. When they saw this formation, Jirgalang knew something was wrong. Today, they were about to fight to the death, so they quickly drew people to the top of the city, and they just watched this one by one.

There was a top on the shield chariot, and the coffin could not be seen. Some civilians were still filling the trenches, and they looked very realistic. They carefully covered the two shield chariots to approach the city gate. With a bang, several Jin soldiers carried the Fran machine cannon and slammed the approaching shield chariot. A wooden shield with iron sheets struck and withstood the test. The iron sand like raindrops did not cause too much casualties. Instead, they were targeted by the soldiers on the balloon, hit and shot, and killed three immediately. The six-pound cannon also followed and greeted fiercely. The Jin soldiers who rushed up to this section of the city wall were all dead, but Jirgalang, who saw that the situation was wrong, could not take care of it. This was too wrong.

The shield car approached the suspension bridge, and the vitality under the city became even stronger. The green-skinned rifle soldiers rushed up regardless of the situation, facing the counterattack at the top of the city, and the guns were as if it was raining, constantly suppressing the Jin soldiers who dared to raise their heads with their vitality.

In just half an hour, five hundred people were lost on the top of the city. The battle was so cruel. The civilians hid in the corner and refused to move. Several of them were cut off on the spot. The others moved forward like snails.
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